small gloat

>As long as there's something worth listening to... Tom>

I've taken to carrying Jefferson Airplane tapes wherever I go these days.
Nothing worth listening to on the radio any more.

GTO(John)

Greetings and Salutations.

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:52:09 GMT, jo4hn <[email protected]> wrote:

>GTO69RA4 wrote:
>>>As long as there's something worth listening to... Tom>
>>
>>
>> I've taken to carrying Jefferson Airplane tapes wherever I go these days.
>> Nothing worth listening to on the radio any more.
>>
>> GTO(John)
>
Try your public radio station. Or...there must be some
alternative radio stations around. There remains some interesting
and good music on the airwaves...one just has to try a bit to find it.

>There's a couple of good Guy Lombardo collections available on CD. Also
>the Ozzie Nelson Orchestra with Harriet Hilliard. Oh and I actually own
>one of the Lombardos. Bought it so I could play Auld Lang Syne (sp?) on
>New Years. Turns out the rest of the music isn't as square as some
>would have you believe.
> mahalo,
> jo4hn
>
Yey, Lombardo did a lot of Latin music that has quite
a perky beat to it....Great stuff.
Regards
Dave Mundt

GTO69RA4 wrote:
>>As long as there's something worth listening to... Tom>
>
>
> I've taken to carrying Jefferson Airplane tapes wherever I go these days.
> Nothing worth listening to on the radio any more.
>
> GTO(John)

There's a couple of good Guy Lombardo collections available on CD. Also
the Ozzie Nelson Orchestra with Harriet Hilliard. Oh and I actually own
one of the Lombardos. Bought it so I could play Auld Lang Syne (sp?) on
New Years. Turns out the rest of the music isn't as square as some
would have you believe.
mahalo,
jo4hn

In article <[email protected]>,
mttt <[email protected]> wrote:
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>"GTO69RA4" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> >As long as there's something worth listening to... Tom>
>>
>> Nothing worth listening to on the radio any more.

Try the low end of the FM dial -- 88-90mHz -- where the college/university
stations are. There are some surprises to be found there.

>
>Amen! I have no idea why I bother to buy cars with radios in them anymore.
>
>

To get the tape or CD player, the radio just 'comes along'.


I'm lucky. I live in the Chicago area; We've got:
1) a full-time classical station (admittedly they have a 3-hour-a-week
"aberration" -- THEIR word, not mine -- that can be folk music, and
_anything_ else. It's _still_ "good stuff". One week they ran _every_
version of the story of 'Little red Riding Hood" they could lay their
hands on. One after the other. Must have been _at_least_ 15 of them.
I got laughing so hard I had to pull off the road and park, till they
finished. The more memorable ones included: the "Thurber Carnival"
version, the Stan Freburg "Dragnet" spoof, and Henry Morgan (*NOT* Harry
Morgan of Dragnet/MASH fame) telling it as a classic French Fairy Tale.
It didn't help that they did a -marvelous- job of sequencing -- from
the straightforward recitations to the more, and *more*, outrageous.
2) a commercial station that runs lots of 'classical jazz'. And a fair
bit of 'modern'. On *different* programs, thank goodness. :)
3) another station that runs big-band music at least 20 hours/week.
Les Brown, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, "The Thundering Herd",
4) Blues -- of course.
5) the 'mostly jazz' station used to have a "torch song" show, too.
6) pop, rock -- undoubtedly, but don't ask me _where_ to find it! :)
7) Country/western -- same story.

And, late nites, I used to listen to "KUSD", the University of South
Dakota station at _Vermillion, SD_. Yeah, here in _Chicago_. over the
air, -not- a rebroadcast. I had a nice sensitive receiver, and was
apparently in 'just the right location'. I could get them fairly regularly,
although the neighbors _never_ heard the station. They were good for
the "Report from Hoople" (SD) -- hosted by Prof. Schickle (of P.D.Q. Bach
fame).

Cause buying them with radios is the onoy way to get a tape player in
them??

John

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:17:14 GMT, "mttt" <[email protected]>
wrote:

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>> >As long as there's something worth listening to... Tom>
>>
>> Nothing worth listening to on the radio any more.
>>
>
>Amen! I have no idea why I bother to buy cars with radios in them anymore.
>

Robert Bonomi wrote:

> Try the low end of the FM dial -- 88-90mHz -- where the college/university
> stations are. There are some surprises to be found there.

Also NPR. I pretty much leave my radio tuned to NPR wherever I am.

I prefer the "NPR News" format stations to the "News/Classical" stations,
and I try to avoid the all-classical stations as much as possible. During
one trip, I was in a "black hole" where the only NPR station for miles was
an all-classical variety. I tuned in a regular radio station. Some good
classic rock for a few minutes, then 10 minutes of ads for titty bars and
porno stores. Whee. Things have changed since the last time I listened to
a commercial radio station.

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> >As long as there's something worth listening to... Tom>
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> Nothing worth listening to on the radio any more.
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Amen! I have no idea why I bother to buy cars with radios in them anymore.

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:17:14 GMT, "mttt" <[email protected]>
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>> >As long as there's something worth listening to... Tom>
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>> Nothing worth listening to on the radio any more.
>>
>
>Amen! I have no idea why I bother to buy cars with radios in them anymore.
>


not true in Tucson. we have an excellent radio station- kxci. it's a
community radio station- not owned by some giant soulless corporation.
it has actual DJs who choose their own actual music to play. variety
all over the place. I regularly hear stuff there that blows me away.
Bridger